Two Mates for the Dragon by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-09-11T05:00:00+00:00

He’s human-shaped. They’re going to tear him apart. Why the hell hasn’t he shifted?

I can’t breathe. We’re diving too quickly for that, so fast the wind is whipped away before I can take a breath, but still not fast enough.

It’s like watching a series of pictures flash in front of my eyes. The sort of nightmare that goes on and on and there’s nothing you can do to stop it.

The dragon who dragged Ygdris out of the building flies up to roof-height and drops him. Ygdris falls like a rag doll onto the balcony. His chest is red.

He’s not moving.

I don’t know whether I’m screaming out loud or just in my head. He must have seen them coming. Why didn’t he transform? Even if he was trying to save his energy, he must have known he’d die if a full squad of six cloudbreakers attacked him.

Two of the dragons look up as the eagle-lion’s shadow falls on them and screech a warning to the others. One of them takes wing, flying up towards us with his teeth bared.

“Screaaaaar!” Ygdris’ treasure doesn’t change course. He smashes into the lead dragon like a spear, and then we’re on top of the others. He lashes left and right with his razor-sharp beak, drawing blood through the dragons’ armour-like scales.

One of the cloudbreakers lunges at me and is immediately smacked out of the way by a feathered wing. Ygdris’ treasure lands on the balcony just long enough to drop me, and then takes to the sky again, keeping himself between the dragon soldiers and me… and Ygdris.

It’s useless. He’s fast, but smaller than all the dragons. And these aren’t just any dragon soldiers. They’re cloudbreakers, the Emperor-Prince’s personal army.

I scramble across the balcony. It’s coming away from the wall and I can feel it moving under me as I try desperately to reach Ygdris before it collapses completely.

“Oh shit,” I mutter as I crawl to his side.

The cloudbreaker must have clawed Ygdris as he pulled him out of the house. There’s a huge tear across his chest, weeping blood. I try to press the edges together but my hands aren’t big enough.

“Ygdris! Why the fuck didn’t you get out when the patrol came through? You could have…” My voice dries up. I can’t talk and hold myself together at the same time. I swallow back a sob. “What am I meant to do now, you arsehole?”

He makes a noise that might have been a cry of pain. My eyes fly to his face. His pale skin is blood-flecked, but he’s… smiling?

“Take the orb and run?” he suggests.

“Fuck off.”

He coughs weakly. “Had to give you time,” he whispers. “A… distraction…”

“That wasn’t the plan!”

“Saw the… transport. Knew they’d find one of us. At least… if you both survive… My fault…”

“You’re not making any sense. Anyway we’re not going to fucking survive, are we? The cloudbreakers are going to kill us all.” The blood rushing over my hands is slowing. Oh God. That’s not a good sign.

Ygdris gasps, blood bubbling at the corner of his mouth.

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